Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds.
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through��.
OLIVER SACKS: British-born science writer reveals he has terminal cancer
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer http://t.co/YqL6JzPk10. ��� Barbie Williams (@Barbie892) February 19, 2015. Mr Sacks, who has never married and who has described himself as celibate, said that over the last 15 years he had published .
6 Important Lessons From OLIVER SACKS Poignant Op-Ed
British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who penned best-selling books like Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, revealed this week in a New York Times op-ed that cancer that started as a rare eye tumor has metastasized to his liver.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism, and the.
In his recent New York Review of Books essay, legendary neurologist Oliver Sacks tackles precisely that, exposing the remarkable mechanisms by which we fabricate our memories, involuntarily blurring the line between the��.
OLIVER SACKS has written a beautiful, heart-breaking essay on his terminal.
Up until a month ago, popular author and neurologist Oliver Sacks was in great health, even swimming a mile every day. Then, everything changed: the 81-year-old was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. In a beautiful op-ed, published today in the New .
The Listener �� SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
As Oliver Sacks observes the mind through music, his belief in a science of empathy takes on new dimension.
There is No Time for Anything Inessential: OLIVER SACKS.
Heres where I cried in Oliver Sackss New York Times essay about learning he has terminal cancer: ���I still care deeply about the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my��.
Famed Scientist Oliver Sacks Reveals He Has Terminal.
Oliver Sacks, one of the leading community intellectuals of the previous 50 percent-century, states terminal most cancers of the liver has left him with only months to stay. Sacks, a neurologist and author of publications like��.
John Jason Fallows �� Blog Archive �� Oliver Sacks on.
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer A month ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out ��� a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple��.
A Digital Library and a Look at a Neurologist’s Hobbies
A glance at coming events at the intersection of science and culture.
Why OLIVER SACKS is One of the Great Modern Adventurers.
Its easy to get the wrong impression about Dr. Oliver Sacks. It certainly is if all you do is look at the author photos on the succession of brainy best-selling neurology books hes written since Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a��.
OLIVER SACKS: I have terminal cancer
Over and over again, I would come to some important realization about autism, only to discover that Oliver had gotten there first in his own writing, when no one else was even close. Few people realize, for example, that when Oliver profiled Temple.
Oliver Sacks describes learning he has terminal cancer: My luck has run out
Mr Sacks authored the 1973 book Awakenings, which detailed his real-life experience with patients who suffered from a condition known as encephalitis lethargica, and how they were able to exit ��� however briefly ��� from their catatonic states with the.
Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks - Radiolab
One of our favorite human beings turns 80 this week. To celebrate, Robert asks Oliver Sacks to look back on his career, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.
Author and neurologist OLIVER SACKS has terminal cancer
Oliver Sacks, the British neurologist and best-selling author of numerous books including ���Awakenings,��� said Thursday he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The 81-year-old disclosed his condition in an essay in the��.
Oliver Sacks reveals he has terminal cancer
The scientist and writer Oliver Sacks has said his ���luck has run out��� after revealing that he has terminal cancer. Sacks, whose book Awakenings inspired the Oscar-nominated film of the same name, disclosed his illness in an article in the New York Times.
‘The Mind’s Eye’
“Dear Dr. Sacks, My (very unusual) problem, in one sentence, and in non-medical terms, is: I can’t read.”
Our Brains on Music: The Science
“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia.”
Power to Soothe the Savage Breast and Animate the Hemispheres
The physician Oliver Sackss latest book focuses on people afflicted with strange musical disorders or powers — “musical misalignments” that affect their professional and daily lives.
OLIVER SACKS on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out ��� a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years ago it was discovered that I had a rare.
This Year, Change Your Mind
Don’t leave learning to the young. Older brains can grow, too.
Shock to the Senses
Oliver Sacks explores the power of hallucinations through first-person accounts.. Siri Hustvedt reviews book Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks.
OLIVER SACKS has terminal cancer, and just months to live
Sacks is known for his best-selling books such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which describes in detail stories of individuals who struggle with neurological hurdles. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain excavated how music.
OLIVER SACKS says he has incurable cancer
Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the doctor portrayed by the late actor Robin Williams in the 1990 film Awakenings, has revealed in a New York Times essay that he has cancer. Its not Sacks first bout with the.
OLIVER SACKS on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer. My Own Life. A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out ��� a few weeks ago I learned that I��.
Taking Inspiration From a Visionary Scientist
For the Live Ideas festival, the choreographer Donna Uchizono interpreted the ideas of the neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks.. Brian Seibert reviews premiere of Out of Frame, choreographed and performed by Donna Uchizono as part of New York Live Arts Live Ideas festival.
Neurologist writes beautiful essay about what its like learning hes about to die
oliver sacks Thos Robinson / Getty ImagesOliver Sacks at the World Science Festival in 2008. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and revered writer of many New Yorker articles and books, wrote an essay in Thursdays New York Times that he begins by sharing.
OLIVER SACKS Joins Columbia Faculty as ‘Artist’
Attracted by his breadth of interests, Columbia University has appointed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, as its first Columbia artist, a newly created designation.
In Praise of Early Adapters
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist, has a passion for objects and subjects whose appeal is less than obvious.
Reading the Fine Print
The decline of books for the visually impaired is no small loss.. Oliver Sacks essay on the decline of books for the visually impaired.
Oliver Sacks teaches us what its like to be face to face with dying
In an op-ed penned for the New York Times, 81-year-old Sacks revealed today that he has terminal cancer. Nine years ago, he was diagnosed with a rare ocular cancer, which recently metastasized after nearly a decade of good health. The disease now .
OLIVER SACKS says he has incurable cancer : The Daily News.
Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the doctor portrayed by the late actor Robin Williams in the 1990 film Awakenings, has revealed in a New York Times essay that he has cancer. Its not Sacks first bout��.
Polish Gazette - Neurologist OLIVER SACKS has terminal liver.
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Oliver Sacks on a motorcycle in 1961 - Boing Boing BBS
Well, if I didnt think he was gay before (and Ive always assumed as much), I would after seeing that photo ��� looking like a Colt model in 1961 Greenwich Village? Gay. SUPER gay. Also super hot.
Dr. Oliver Sacks and the Real-Life Awakenings
I imagine its 1926. And youre a young woman of 21 you dance you laugh. Nora star in a star bright decades. Then suddenly one day you begin to have trouble moving. Until finally you hang suspended him alive but dimly aware we imprisoned in a frozen .
Oliver Sacks is dying as he lived: Brilliantly
Oliver Sacks, one of our most brilliant clinical minds, revealed on Thursday that the cancer that he suffers from has spread to his liver and metastasized, and that he is now facing death. In a moving, clear-headed and surprisingly uplifting New York.
‘Musicophilia’
“And then, on the heels of this sudden desire for piano music, [Tony] Cicoria started to hear music in his head.”
Living With the Ailing
To the Editor: I was fascinated by Natalie Angiers article about the PBS series on the neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks [A Gallery of Human Oddities Who Are, After All, Human, Aug. 23]. I was touched by her wrestling with how to deal with the subject of people on the syndromic outposts. Two of the people I loved the most were condemned to that no-mans land. Over the years I read Dr. Sacks and came to hate him -- but kept on reading. My husband, Robert Crichton, a brilliant and talented man, began to lose his mind, very slowly -- first in a curious fashion and later in a horrifying one. A friend said he had disappeared, faded from life. It was not unlike that. For some years it was believed that he suffered Korsakoff syndrome because he was a drinker. We blamed him for not stopping, blamed ourselves for not stopping him.. Judy Crichton letter responds to Natalie Angiers August 23 article on PBS series about neurologist Oliver Sacks (M)
Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do
Hallucinations are often entirely normal and can be entertaining.. Op-Ed article by neurology Prof Oliver Sacks contends that hallucinations are often entirely normal and can be entertaining; laments that for too many patients shame, secrecy and stigma associated with hallucinations persists.
New York Live Arts Introduces Arts and Ideas Festival
. The inaugural festival will run from April 17-21 and explore the work of the neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Scientists, artists, glitterati respond to OLIVER SACKS revelation of his.
Sacks, a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and the author of dozens of books and essays, has been described by The Times as a poet laureate of contemporary medicine, though in the eyes of some critics, he is more artist than scientist.
OLIVER SACKS on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer. Oliver Sacks in the New York Times: 19sacks-blog427 A month ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out��.
OLIVER SACKS, medicines poet, reveals hes dying
Its a stark awakening for one of medicines acclaimed poets. Oliver Sacks has just months to live, the neurologist and best-selling author announced Thursday in a moving essay for The New York Times. A professor of neurology at NYUs School of.
A Mother Speaks
To the Editor: I object to how my 8-year-old daughter, Heidi Comfort, was discussed in Natalie Angiers article about the PBS series on the neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks [A Gallery of Human Oddities Who Are, After All, Human, Aug. 23]. Heidi, who appears in the documentary, has Williams syndrome, also known as WS.. Carol Comfort letter deplores Natalie Angiers depiction of people afflicted with Williams syndrome in her Aug 23 article on television series on neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks (S)
Author, Doctor OLIVER SACKS Announces Cancer Diagnosis In New York Times.
Oliver Sacks, the British-born neurologist, writer and well-known professor at New York University School of Medicine, announced Thursday in a New York Times essay that he has terminal cancer. Sacks, who is known for his books ���Awakenings��� and ���The .
Oliver Sacks on a motorcycle in 1961 - Boing Boing
Im a huge fan of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Hes led a very interesting life, as a medical researcher, professor of neurology, lover of music, lover of things that explode, and intrepid psychonaut. Hes got a memoir coming out this April��.
OLIVER SACKS on Empathy as a Path to Insight - HBR
LISA BURRELL: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. Im Lisa Burrell. This weeks guest is renowned neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. Hes the author of nearly a dozen books, many of them case��.
An Overflowing Five-Day Banquet of Science and Its Meanings
The World Science Festival in New York City did not go off without a hitch, but the organizers may have created a new cultural institution.